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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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CHAPTER 39
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Man’s weakness and ignorance compared with God’s mighty works—Does man even know how the laws of nature operate?
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Knowest</span> thou the time when the wild <sup>a</sup><a href="job/39/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Nature.">goats</a> of the rock bring forth?  <i>or</i> canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
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Canst thou number the months <i>that</i> they fulfil?  or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
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They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
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Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
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Who hath sent out the wild ass free?  or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
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Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
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He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
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The range of the mountains <i>is</i> his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
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Will the <sup>a</sup><a href="job/39/9a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB buffalo, bison.">unicorn</a> be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
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Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow?  or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
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Wilt thou trust him, because his strength <i>is</i> great?  or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
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Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather <i>it into</i> thy barn?
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<i>Gavest thou </i>the goodly wings unto the peacocks?  or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
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Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
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And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
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She is <sup>a</sup><a href="job/39/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lam. 4: 3.">hardened</a> against her young ones, as though <i>they were</i> not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;
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Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
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What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
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Hast thou given the horse strength?  hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?
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Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper?  the glory of his nostrils <i>is</i> terrible.
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He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in <i>his</i> strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.
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He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.
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The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield.
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He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that <i>it is </i>the sound of the trumpet.
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He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
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Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, <i>and</i> stretch her wings toward the south?
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Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
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She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.
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From thence she seeketh the prey, <i>and</i> her eyes behold afar off.
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Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain <i>are,</i> there <i>is</i> she.
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